I am trying to figure out if it is possible from an expression to access 2 text properties:
1. If a bounding box is enabled, and if so, its size (width/height). I.e NOT .sourceRectAtTime() but the constraining box that wraps and limits the size of the text.
2. The paragraph alignment setting, i.e. left / center / right / justify last left / justify last right / justify all
So far it seems this is not accessible, as I do not get anywhere fiddling around with theTextLayer.Text.sourceText or theTextLayer("Text")("Source Text"). I see there is a .numProperties but there is no .property() function to access anything, so I am assuming that's the parent's property count.
Text layers apparently do not have any .source either, so there's no way of getting there that way...
Accessing text properties
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I'm afraid you're out of luck. You can poke around a little with source text expressions like this:
prop = text;
prop.numProperties;
or,
prop = text;
prop(3)(1).name
But I don't think you'll find anything helpful. Different story with scripting though...
Dan
prop = text;
prop.numProperties;
or,
prop = text;
prop(3)(1).name
But I don't think you'll find anything helpful. Different story with scripting though...
Dan
Aha, but that was quite helpful actually at least in understanding how to iterate over the properties - it wasn't apparent how the relation to .numProperties and .(1..numProperties) worked.
For what I am doing I should be able to just write a script that will add the expression to the layer anyhow (if that is possible), that can inspect the values at design-time and just insert them into the expression. If not, I will just have to make these configuration options at the top of the expression..
For what I am doing I should be able to just write a script that will add the expression to the layer anyhow (if that is possible), that can inspect the values at design-time and just insert them into the expression. If not, I will just have to make these configuration options at the top of the expression..